Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm

2012-02-09 1 min read Database Fedora
[TOra][1]
Image via Wikipedia

Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner:

rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm"

But if you like the hard way out, then you can always try this.

Enhanced by Zemanta

List all installed rpm packages and it’s size

2010-12-09 1 min read Fedora Linux

If you are looking for a command to see the disk usage by each of the rpm‘s then you can use this command:

  <td>
    <div class="text codecolorer">
      &nbsp;rpm -q --queryformat "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n"
    </div>
  </td>
</tr>
1

And if you use this command very regularly then you can create an alias like

  <td>
    <div class="text codecolorer">
      &nbsp;alias rpm_size='rpm -q --queryformat "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" '
    </div>
  </td>
</tr>
1

and use it like

Continue reading